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ClosingTime

I wonder what you think of this for couplet 3?

Snake Pass (the highest point of Snake Road :google maps)(one of my favourite roads,a little treacherous!) Formerly a toll road!

It passes through Kinder Scout,the highest point in the peaks,whose plateau is 4sq miles of PEAT!


Not sure if this has anything to do with it.? A creature,a street in the pete? Cant seem to link it together though with couplet no.2 other than it being a toll road.

just found this on Kinder scouts origins:

KINDER SCOUT.

From the village, a narrow road arrives a car park, from which a steep walk onto the slopes of Kinder Scout, brings you once more onto the rugged wilderness of the high moors. It has been suggested that “Kinder” may be of Celtic origin and come directly from the Germanic “Kunder”, meaning creature, being or prodigy. In a shallow ravine, close-by Kinder Downfall, there is a dark, melancholic pool, ringed by squelching bog land in the depths of which is said to live a mermaid. She may well be the “creature” to whom the mountains name refers.

From Here. (More clues?)

ClosingTime

Tenuous outloud thinking :



Snake rd seems to start at Ladybower reservoir which is linked via the derwent aqueduct to Amber (see post 68)?


Theres also a link to Eyam,but Im lost and cant remember what or where it is!


Argggggggh

orangemorag

Hi there

I'm another newbie, butting in. Been reading posts for a while but never get anywhere myself. Hopefully until now - I have an idea:

The wind farm on Carsington Pastures looks to be a great source of pain itself - google it and find a lot of info about protests etc.

The King's Chair/Lady Chair (previously mentioned) is in Carsington Pastures.

This immediately made me think of a Sedan chair. An early name for this was a Fly-by-night.

So creature may be a fly.

Another thought was that "the pete" might be St Peter Port, Guernsey - not sure though if cash hunt covers Channel Islands or not.

Hope this helps and I've not led you all up some garden path to find a red herring.:o

Morag

Marg2k8

Hello and welcome orangemorag.

I think that whilst the windfarm might be a source of great pain to local residents, my own gut feeling is that this is too much of a tenuous link to pain. Having said that, I've got no better ideas myself, so who knows?

As regards not knowing whether it covers the Channel Islands or not, if it helps, a clue on one of the previous puzzles was to the Isle of Man, so on this basis, I would say that the Channel Islands are fine.

Desperado99

Sorry to interrupt (I have to say I am completely clueless when it comes to this type of thing)

OH reckons the answer is (white on white background): Great North Forest

bargainhuntergal

Bunting wrote: »

Sorry to interrupt (I have to say I am completely clueless when it comes to this type of thing)

OH reckons the answer is (white on white background): Great North Forest

I think your OH is right!!! Absolute genius!!!

The end line 'where a man runs, you'll see.' could be to do with

The Great North Run!!!!

:T :T Well done your OH!!! Just out of interest (because I'm really intrigued) could you ask what was the process for getting to there please?

Thanks!!

Desperado99

He just went on the last line, worked out it was a forest and wikied british forests, and found one that fit the clue ( 5 letters, 5 letters, forest)

His mind is on a different plane to most ( He will be insufferable now )

bargainhuntergal

Bunting wrote: »

He just went on the last line, worked out it was a forest and wikied british forests, and found one that fit the clue ( 5 letters, 5 letters, forest)

His mind is on a different plane to most ( He will be insufferable now )

That's funny!!:rotfl: I did the same thing a few days ago (looked for a list of British forests) because I came to the same conclusion on the last line that the last word was 'forest' too, but kind of lost the will to live with it because the list was long and I couldn't find any that were 5 letters, 5 letters and then forest!! Well done to him for finding something!!! :T

My only reservation now I've read more about the forest is that it mentions something about the government backed project being inaugurated in 1990 here, the line says 'old wood' I still think it's right (because of the man runs thing) but it just put a slight doubt into my head because I'm thinking, is the forest older than 1990 and just made bigger by this project? Or was it started completely from scratch then in which case it's not particularly old?

reniannen

It's definitely worth a shot, just to remind any newbies you can enter an answer once per day

I'm also a bit dubious about it being an 'old wood' though. It was definitely only started in 1990 to make up for the lack of trees due to mining. It's so distinctively a new wood that I can't see why they wouldn't have put 'new wood' in the clue.


I still haven't got anywhere really for the first part of the clue. There's so much lead mining in the area esp at Hopton, I keep thinking of lead window panes but I'm sure they usually put the right spelling for what they mean. I'm going to have a wee check through previous clues though just to see. (eta - hmm they do tend to in this context, only if it gives the clue away do they make a pun). But it would lead me to the Via Gellia, via is latin for way (as in Via Appia/The Appian Way). I cant get it to link to creature though.
Part of the problem is I'm also stumped with the pete line and I'm not sure if I'll know if I get the right answer because I don't know what to do with it afterwards!

ClosingTime

I tend to agree a little tbh Plus I dont see how we've got there